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Schools Place for Peace. Tfie fiftieth annual convention of the National Educational Association convened at Los Angelss for five days’ session with delegates from the United States, England, Mexico and Hawaii among the 5,000 pres ent. President Nathan C. Schaeffer, in his annual address, answered the question, “What can the Ichool do to aid the peace movement 1” He said, in part: ‘‘ It seems to me that our text books, our examinations and our in struction should glorify the arts of peace above the art of war. The pupil can be led to see that Pasteur, the scientist, has done more for hu manity than Napoleon, the destroyer of thousands; that Carnegie, the phil anthropist, has done more for civili zation than the admiral who sinks a hostile fleet; that the men who, by expeiiments upon their own bodies, showed how yellow fever is transmit ted and can be prevented, were as great- heroes ias any soldiers that ever faced a cannon’s mouth; that the woman who serves in the hospi tal as a nurse displays as much he roism as the officer who serves his country in time of war.” Vatican Hears of Secret League. The Vatican, at Rome, has learn ed of a secret international league in Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon coun tries, formed ostensibly to petition the Vatican to suppress the In dex Expurgatorius, but the real ob ject of which is said to be to stir up strife among Catholics, causing schisms. The Pope, it is asserted, will soon take severe disciplinary measures against the new league. What’s the Use? • Standard Oil, through its counsel, declined to avail itself of Judge Lan dis’ invitation, at the close of the examination of John D. Rockefeller and other officers of the company, to present evidence to show that it had not violated the law in other in stances. The implication was that if it could show that it had not it would be a mitigating circumstance to be considered when it came to im posing a fine on its subsidiary com pany, the Standard Oil Company of Ind’ana. The maximum fine would be $29,240,000. Full Pardon Granted to Col. Arthur Lynch. On the eve of his visit to Ireland King Edward has granted a full par don to Col. Arthur Lynch, who was convicted of high treason in 1903 in fighting in the Irish Brigade on the side of the Boers in the South Af rican war. Col. Lynch was sentenced to death for high treason in 1903, but his sen tence later was commuted to impris onment for life, and in January, 1901, he was released “on license.” Lynch was born in Australia of Irish parents, and received a uni versity education in Germany. Later he went to Galway, the home of his ancestors, and plunged into party politics. After being defeated at the polls in the general election in 1892, he went to London and en gaged jin literary and journalistic work. He was sent by a London newspaper to Ashanti with the British expedition, but owing to his leaving London without a permit from the War Office, he did not get WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. any further than Cape Coast Castle. He afterward became Paris corres pondent of a London newspaper. He was instrumental in raising the Irish Brigade which fought on the side of the Boers in the South Af rican war, and while in Paris, after his return from South Africa, he was elected to Parliament by Galway City. But on returning to England to take his seat in the House of Commons he was arrested. To Be Tried On the Trusts. Injunctions and receivers may be the future weapons of the Depart ment of Justice to curb illegal trusts. The new plan is slated for trial at an early date. It was conceived by Attorney-General. Bonaparte and Mil ton D. Purdy, the trust expert, and there is every promise that it will shake the trusts as nothing before has done. The courts will be asked to issue injunctions and appoint re ceivers in the case of big combina tions that have so long ignored the Sherman anti-trust law, in the belief that fines would be the sole puni h ment they might expect. To Smash Traction Merger. Attorney-General Jackson, on be half of New Yo k State, began pro ceedings to smash the $225,000,000 Ryan-Belmont Interborough-Meti o politan Company. Justice Platzek, in special term of the Supreme Court, signed an order on applica tion of the attorney-general, direct ing the Ryan-Belmont traction trust to show cause on July 19, why pro ceedings should not be instituted to -annul the Interboiough-Metropolitan charter, on the grounds that the corporation is an illegal monopoly. Japanese Caught Sketching. During the past week Japanese men have been captured while draw ing and photographing our coast for tifications, both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. One of the Japs was captured in Fort Rosecrans at San Diego, Cal., and caused intense feel ing among the Americans who made hostile demonstrations in the lower part of the city near the water front, where the Japanese quarters are lo cated. Thousands of Plague Victims. It had been estimated that more than a million of the people of East India would fall victims to the plague. Now it is known that this figure, vast as it is, will be exceeded, and that the mortality will reach an appalling total. During the last week for which there are official fig ures, 67,000 died of the plague. Agitators take advantage of the awful infliction to have an additional fling at the British Government. One declared that the illness from which the people a e suffering is not plague, but the result of the poison ing of the wells by their British masters. Santa Fe Indicted. The Federal Grand Jury, at Chi cago, indicted the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad on sixty-five counts of rebating. If convicted on all the counts the railroad would be liable to a maximum fine of $1,300,- 000. Costa Rica Wants White Men. Costa Rica’s Congress appropriat ed $40,000 a year to pay the trav eling expenses of white farmers and laborers willing to come to •San Jose with their families to settle. • Mb*) • Parker Attacks Roosevelt. Judge Parker, in an address de livered at Hendersonville, N. C., at tacked President Roosevelt for his misuse of the common law, and ask ed: “What’s the Constitution now between Friends'?” He called Roose velt an accomplished politician, backed by the trusts, and said: “But the campaign against the government plan of the fathers is on and has been for several years. It has for its leader the most ac complished politician of our history. ■Behind him and backing him stand these great corporations of the coun try, which are engaged in interstate commerce and insurance. “Their reason is that it is easier to deal with one government than with many. “It is not their purpose to Sub mit proposed amendments to the Constitution to the people as the Constitution provides —a procedure with which no one could find fault, as it offers an opportunity for dis cussion before the people prior to their action. “Rather it is their scheme to ac complish the centralization of power by unconstitutional, and, therefore, dishonest, methods. “These include: “1. Congressional legislation as suming powers not granted, but ex pressly retained ei her to the states or the people. “2. Executive exercise of powers not granted, and the seizure, in one form or another, of powers belong ing to other departments of govern ment. “3. The substitution of statutes for common Jaw.” Jail Sentence for Business Men. For violating the Valentine Anti- Trust law, which makes any con spiracy in restraint of trade, a crime, twenty-three representative and wealthy business men of the city of Toledo, Ohio, were sentenced to nine months’ impr'sonment each, and nine others were fined SI,OOO each. In inflicting punishment 'upon the guilty men, Judge Morris said he was convinced the only effective rem edy which society could employ to prevent unlawful combinations of capital at the expense of the ’public welfare was a vigorous enforcement of the laws to the very letter. In passing sentence Judge Morris scathingly denounced the methods which had used by the solid busi ness men who were ranged before him. Most of them were nervous, and plainly showed k they were also badly frightened. To Smash the Tobacco Trust. The government struck the first blow in its campaign to smash the Tobacco Trust by filing a bill in equity in the United States Circuit Court in. New York City. By this action it is sought to dissolve the trust by having it declared a com bination in restraint of trade, under provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law, to obtain an injunction to stop its business and, i nthe discussion of the court, the appointment of a receiver. Specifically the complaint asks the following relief: That each constituent company of the trust be restrained from engaging in interstate or foreign commerce. That each company be restrained from holding stock in any of the other constituent corporations. That each corporation be restrain ed from carrying out any of its con tracts, combinations or conspiracies with the others. That the particular contracts by which an agreement between the English and American tobacco com binations was effected in the fall of 1902, be abrogated as illegal. That the trust in all its branches be enjoined from continuing to exer cise a monopoly of the leaf tobacco business of this country. That the court, in its discretion, appoint receivers for each of the constituent concerns to take control of all their property and, if neces sary, wind them up. Bad Losses for Vatican. It is conceded that the Catholics sustained an overwhelming defeat in the municipal elections in the city of Rome last week, which fully de termined the pirtial elections of last Sunday. The usual number of Cath olic municipal councillors sent to seats in the capitol is generally more than twelve, but this year the Cath olic voters, notwithstanding their several organizations, and the urging of the Vatican authorities, have only secured five seats in the municipal council, while the majority of the vacant positions were given to So cialist candidates. As a consequence of the el ction, b >th the mayor and the select council have tendered their resignations to the Prefect. Gov. Hughes Accuses Kelsey. Gov. Hughes vetoed the $15,000 counsel fees demanded by the law yers who defended Sup rintendent of Insurance Otto Kelsey before the Senate. The governor again flays Kelsey and his counsel in a memo randum annexed to the item, and still insists that Kelsey is incompetent. Gov. Hughes said: “There is no justification for this item. The proceedings before the Senate and its committee cannot in any proper sense be called a trial. Neither the superintendent nor his witnesses were cross-examined, nor were witnesses produced against him. Counsel did not appear to prosecute him or to argue in support of the recommendation. ” The Haywood Trial. The past week proved to be the most interesting as well as the most important in the Haywood trial, as President Charles H. Moyer, of the Western Federation, and William D. Haywood both took the witness stand. In the early part of the week many depositions were read, intend ed to refute the story of Harry Or chard, the state’s chief witness. Then Charles 11. Moyer told from the witness stand the story of the stormy career of his organization since he became its chief executive, and the resultant trouble and suffer ing visited upon himself. Moyer said that he had been a miner since 1883. The Black Hills was the scene of his early labors, and for years he worked in the Golden Reward, Homestate and Horseshoe mines. He did not join any labor union until 1887, when he became a charter member of a smelterman’s union, at Lend, S. Dak., a local of the Feder ation, and subsequently was elected president. He served two terms as president of this union and, in June, 1899, was elected to the Executive (Continued on Page Twelve.), PAGE FIVE